In short, concatenative languages behave in a way which looks imperative (like C or Perl), but can be reasoned about in a functional manner (like ML or Haskell).
These languages are only beginning to be studied, although Forth had a heyday in the 80s, and Postscript is notable for being the most commonly metaprogrammed language in existance (a trait which I believe is not a coincidence).
... Hi, Thanks for your questions. Minimac has almost no syntax, basically a set of special characters that trigger behaviors (quoting, escaping, naming,
Just to keep the pipes exercised [I suspected that I'd been cut-off of cat-list [what's happening in the 1st-world/N-hemisphere 'for' no cat-list-traffic ?] ]
Minimac (http://freshmeat.net/projects/minimac-macro-processor) is a minimalist, general purpose text macro processor. It uses an explicit argument stack, and
... Yes and no. A language like Joy yes; Joy itself NO. Joy is an academic prototype, not really intended for any specific use. ... Right. The concatenative
Should a language like Joy be compared to Java. Java compiles into class files, which consist of bytecodes, which is assembler like code for the JVM. Joy